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We had flung down the adze from the top of the fall and also the logbook and the cooker wrapped in one of our blouses. That was all, except our wet clothes, that we brought out of the Antarctic, which we had entered a year and a half before with well-found ship, full equipment, and high hopes. That was all of tangible things; but in memories we were rich. We had pierced the veneer of outside things. We had suffered, starved, and triumphed, groveled down yet grasped at glory, grown bigger in the bigness of the whole. We had seen God in his splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man. – Sir Ernest Shackleton	added by anonymous 2 years ago
We now can see the veneer has been torn away, just why Secretary Mike Pompeo and Donald Trump do not want any of these documents provided to Congress. – Adam Schiff	Found on CNN 2 years ago
With a pardon comes at least the veneer of an admission of guilty, in a way, I think pardoning himself and his family is almost like a taunt. It would have said ‘try to come and get me,’ and would have accelerated litigation and investigation. – Jessica Levinson	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
The national politicians have been very much out front in this and have really created a very substantial political veneer over the entire vaccine development process, that has had an effect of creating a terrific amount of skepticism. – William Schaffner	Found on CNN 3 years ago
We now can see the veneer has been torn away, just why Secretary Pompeo and Donald Trump do not want any of these documents provided to Congress. – Adam Schiff	Found on CNN 4 years ago
It's a fraud. It's a lie, it's this well-intended veneer that covers horrible, incredible evil. – Mark Vicente	Found on CNN 4 years ago
When you have a Mike Pence who now puts this religious veneer on things and who calls people values voters, I think we're in a dangerous situation. Look I'm Catholic. I'm a faithful person, but I don’t know that I want my vice president, um -- speaking in tongues and having Jesus speak to him. – Sunny Hostin	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
He’s not very popular at all, i think when you have a Mike Pence who now sort of puts this religious veneer on things and calls people ‘values voters,’ I think we’re in a dangerous situation. – Sunny Hostin	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I think when you have a Mike Pence who now sort of puts this religious veneer on things and calls people ‘values voters,’ I think we’re in a dangerous situation. – Sunny Hostin	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
When you talk about ‘ Making America Great Again, ’ America being great everyone assumed was the Eisenhower ‘ 50s, and it was great if you were a white, straight male, but other than that it probablywas n’tso great, it’s fun to lift up that curtain and look underneath that thin veneer and see some of the real problems that this country has yet to completely come to terms with. – George Clooney	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
[There's a] breakdown in how we tend to think in this country that we have solved the racial and ethnic differences, and we really haven't. We've created a veneer over the top on all racial and gender issues in the country. – Jim Webb	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People think it’s this veneer — that the designers are handed this box and told, ‘Make it look good!’ That’s not what we think design is. It’s not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works. – Steve Jobs	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence. – John Lahr	added by anonymous 13 years ago

We had flung down the adze from the top of the fall and also the logbook and the cooker wrapped in one of our blouses. That was all, except our wet clothes, that we brought out of the Antarctic, which we had entered a year and a half before with well-found ship, full equipment, and high hopes. That was all of tangible things; but in memories we were rich. We had pierced the veneer of outside things. We had suffered, starved, and triumphed, groveled down yet grasped at glory, grown bigger in the bigness of the whole. We had seen God in his splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.

– Sir Ernest Shackleton

added by anonymous
2 years ago

We now can see the veneer has been torn away, just why Secretary Mike Pompeo and Donald Trump do not want any of these documents provided to Congress.

– Adam Schiff

Found on CNN
2 years ago

With a pardon comes at least the veneer of an admission of guilty, in a way, I think pardoning himself and his family is almost like a taunt. It would have said ‘try to come and get me,’ and would have accelerated litigation and investigation.

– Jessica Levinson

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

The national politicians have been very much out front in this and have really created a very substantial political veneer over the entire vaccine development process, that has had an effect of creating a terrific amount of skepticism.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We now can see the veneer has been torn away, just why Secretary Pompeo and Donald Trump do not want any of these documents provided to Congress.

– Adam Schiff

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It's a fraud. It's a lie, it's this well-intended veneer that covers horrible, incredible evil.

– Mark Vicente

Found on CNN
4 years ago

When you have a Mike Pence who now puts this religious veneer on things and who calls people values voters, I think we're in a dangerous situation. Look I'm Catholic. I'm a faithful person, but I don’t know that I want my vice president, um -- speaking in tongues and having Jesus speak to him.

– Sunny Hostin

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

He’s not very popular at all, i think when you have a Mike Pence who now sort of puts this religious veneer on things and calls people ‘values voters,’ I think we’re in a dangerous situation.

– Sunny Hostin

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I think when you have a Mike Pence who now sort of puts this religious veneer on things and calls people ‘values voters,’ I think we’re in a dangerous situation.

– Sunny Hostin

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

When you talk about ‘ Making America Great Again, ’ America being great everyone assumed was the Eisenhower ‘ 50s, and it was great if you were a white, straight male, but other than that it probablywas n’tso great, it’s fun to lift up that curtain and look underneath that thin veneer and see some of the real problems that this country has yet to completely come to terms with.

– George Clooney

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

[There's a] breakdown in how we tend to think in this country that we have solved the racial and ethnic differences, and we really haven't. We've created a veneer over the top on all racial and gender issues in the country.

– Jim Webb

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People think it’s this veneer — that the designers are handed this box and told, ‘Make it look good!’ That’s not what we think design is. It’s not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

– Steve Jobs

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.

– John Lahr

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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